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What's a cookie?
A "cookie" is a piece of information that is stored on your computer's hard drive if you agree to this and which records how you move your way around a website so that, when you revisit that website, it can present tailored options based on the information stored about your last visit. Cookies can also be used to analyse traffic and for advertising and marketing purposes.
Cookies are used by nearly all websites and do not harm your system.
We are required to obtain your consent for all non-essential cookies used on our website. You can block cookies (including essential cookies) at any time by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block essential cookies you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
How do we use cookies?
We use cookies to track your use of our website. This enables us to understand how you use the site and track any patterns with regards how you are using our website. This helps us to develop and improve our website as well as products and / or services in response to what you might need or want.
Cookies are either:
Session cookies: these are only stored on your computer during your web session and are automatically deleted when you close your browser – they usually store an anonymous session ID allowing you to browse a website without having to log in to each page, but they do not collect any personal data from your computer; or
Persistent cookies: a persistent cookie is stored as a file on your computer and it remains there when you close your web browser. The cookie can be read by the website that created it when you visit that website again. We use persistent cookies for Google Analytics.
Cookies can also be categorised as follows:
Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are essential to enable you to use the website effectively, such as when buying a product and / or service. Without these cookies, the services available to you on our website cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have been on the internet.
Performance cookies: These cookies enable us to monitor and improve the performance of our website. For example, they allow us to count visits, identify traffic sources and see which parts of the site are most popular.
Functionality cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced features. For instance, we may be able to provide you with news or updates relevant to the services you use. They may also be used to provide services you have requested such as viewing a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect is usually anonymised.
Targeting cookies: These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.
First and third-party cookies: First party cookies are cookies set by our website. Third party cookies are cookies on our website that are set by a website other than our website, such as where we have adverts on our website or use Facebook pixels so that we can show you relevant content from us when you are on Facebook.
We use third party cookies on our website and these are set out in the table below
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in our Cookie Declaration and in the table below.
Necessary (2)
Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies
Cookie Name | Provider | Purpose | Expiry | Type |
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Cookie Consent | High Touch Virtual Solutions.com | Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain | 1 Year | HTTP Cookie |
2PHPSESSID | High Touch Virtual Solutions.com | Preserves user session state across page requests. | Session | HTTP Cookie |
Statistics (4)
Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
Cookie Name | Provider | Purpose | Expiry | Type |
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_ga | High Touch Virtual Solutions.com | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website | 2 Years | HTTP Cookie |
_gat | High Touch Virtual Solutions.com | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate | 1 Day | HTTP Cookie |
_gid | High Touch Virtual Solutions.com | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website | 1 Day | HTTP Cookie |
Collect | google-analytics.com | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels | Session | Pixel Tracker |
Marketing (12)
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third-party advertisers
Cookie Name | Provider | Purpose | Expiry | Type |
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GPS | youtube.com | Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location. | 1 Day | HTTP Cookie |
IDE | Doubleclick.net | Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. | 1 Year | HTTP Cookie |
PREF | youtube.com | Registers a unique ID that is used by Google to keep statistics of how the visitor uses YouTube videos across different websites. | 8 Months | HTTP Cookie |
test_cookie | Doubleclick.net | Used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies | 1 Day | HTTP Cookie |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | youtube.com | Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos | 179 Days | HTTP Cookie |
YSC | youtube.com | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | Session | HTTP Cooke |
yt-remote-cast-installed | youtube.com | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Session | HTTP Cookie |
yt-remote-connected-devices | youtube.com | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Persistent | HTML Local Storage |
yt-remote-device-id | youtube.com | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Persistent | HTML Local Storage |
yt-remote-fast-check-period | youtube.com | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Session | HTML Local Storage |
yt-remote-session-app | youtube.com | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Session | HTML Local Storage |
yt-remote-session-name | youtube.com | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Session | HTML Local Storage |
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You can also control your cookie settings through your web browser.
You can opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, by going to http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire as per the expiry dates on our Cookie Declaration.
If you have any questions about the cookies that we use, feel free to email us at info@hightouchvirtualsolutions.com.